Heal Old Narratives, Awaken Your Authentic Voice and Embrace the Power of Your Story for a Life Aligned with Your Soul’s Deepest Desires and Highest Calling for Being Here
Your Story is your lens - how you see yourself, the world and your place in it.
Your Story is a manifestation of your beliefs - what you believe about yourself and what is possible for you. The Story you tell yourself - consciously or subconsciously - directly affects the life you live and how you experience it day to day.
As humans, our Stories are influenced by the soil we’re planted in. Our families, communities and the systems we navigate have taught us to show up in certain ways to survive and thrive. This messaging becomes internalized and can manifest in our beliefs and Stories, in ways that support us and also in ways that can limit and stifle us. We can especially feel this restriction in moments when we are being called to grow and evolve.
On a soul level, you came here in human form to understand yourself on deeper levels, and grow through this process. The journey naturally calls you to expand beyond the boxes you’ve been placed in. To shift and evolve again and again. It can be exhilarating to hear that call, yet also uncomfortable and at times disorienting to follow it.
Supportive and nurturing spaces are needed, for you to connect with and experience yourself on deeper levels, to heal and liberate yourself from old stories and beliefs that are holding you back, and to envision, create and step into the evolving Story and life that your soul came here to experience.
Beyond who you’ve been. Beyond who you’re ‘supposed to be’. In communion with who you fully are, and how your whole self desires to express, love and honor yourself thru the living of your fullest, most authentically expressed life.
The Course
In this 6-week online course, we will create a sacred and brave space for you to become intimate with your Story - what it’s been, how it is evolving, and where it’s calling for healing and transformation in the present in order to arrive at your future.
Using StorySculpting™ tools and practices, you’ll awaken your Authentic Voice - a divinely activated and expressed voice that honors your truest, evolving self. With your Authentic Voice you will speak into creation a Story and life guided by your soul’s deepest truths and highest calling for being here. And, within a supportive community, you’ll be witnessed and supported as you begin to bring your evolving Story to vibrant life.
What is StorySculpting?
StorySculpting™ is a dynamic and interactive healing journey that uses your personal narrative, the Story of you, as a way in to deeper awareness, self knowing, compassion, growth and expansion.
Through spoken and written story practices, self awareness exercises, deep chakra breathing, meditation, creative visualization and other spiritual tools, you become intimate with all of your parts – the parts of you in the light and the parts of you in shadow that you might hide or possibly don’t see. We work together to uncover and heal old patterns, beliefs and wounds, and transmute those experiences into empowering and expansive tools of creation. The creation of a Story that is aligned with your divine purpose and fueled by your Authentic Voice - a voice that honors and fully expresses your truest, evolving self. And speaks into existence a life and Story aligned with your Soul’s deepest desires and highest calling for being here.
What You’ll Learn
In this online course you’ll be guided through an interactive and intuitive journey into exploring, healing and sculpting your Story in a sacred environment with the added value of evolving your Story in community.
You’ll explore and evolve your Story using the transformative SCULPT method…
S peak Your Intentions
C reate + Open Sacred Space
U ncover + Gather All of Your Parts
L isten In + Speak Your Story
P ractice + Live Your Story
T ransform + Evolve Your Story and Life
The Tools
Throughout this process you’ll learn the following Tools and Practices...
Chakra Breathing + Meditations : To activate your energy centers and connect you to higher realms of consciousness and presence, tapping into centers of wisdom and intuition beyond the mind and Ego
Sacred Space Creation : To help you create a sacred space in your own home + within your own being where you can engage with your Story and your life on deeper levels
Guided Writing Prompts and Exercises : To help you delve into your current Story and the life moments, experiences and beliefs - past and present - that make it up
Spoken Story Exploration : To connect you with the power of hearing your own Story (what you say) in your own Voice (how you say it), and the self discovery this brings. Ultimately awakening your Authentic Voice - a powerful, transformative practice that gifts you direct and divine access to your highest self and most authentic expression
Self Awareness + Self Reflection Practices : To bring you in tune with how you’re truly feeling, seeing and experiencing yourself and your Story in the world; to shift from self separation to self understanding, compassion, acceptance and growth
Creative Visualization + Radical Imagination Practices : To illuminate your vision - your deepest desires and the highest calling for your present and future - and support you in consciously sculpting a Story aligned with it
The Flow
3 Sessions
Session 1 : 2 hrs
Session 2 : 3 Hrs
Session 3 : 2 Hrs
2 At-Home DISCOVERY
Between Sessions 1 and 2
Between Sessions 2 and 3
Journaling, spoken story, and self-reflection practices to guide you through exploring and transforming your Story (estimated time commitment is 2 hrs/wk)
Continuous Discovery
Ways to continue your Story’s evolution after your sessions are complete
The Support
In Session
Group Story coaching and conversation in which a safe, yet brave and open space is created to evolve your Story in community
Smaller group and 1:1 breakouts to further delve into and sculpt your Story in a more intimate setting
Between Sessions
Music Playlists to spark and inspire your At Home Discovery
Digital Community hosted on The Open Series' Mighty Networks platform, to receive messages and check-ins from Hosanna between sessions as you move through your At Home Discovery and to connect with your fellow StorySculpters during the course. With the option to continue the Digital Community after the course is complete.
What You’ll Gain
A new found awareness, love and confidence in yourself and your Story and its ability to heal yourself and help illuminate and support your ever evolving life
Tools and practices that will allow you to release and heal the stories, patterns and beliefs that have been holding you back
A guided process that empowers you to consciously sculpt your Story and create a life that’s aligned with your most authentic self and highest calling for being here
Guidance to apply and observe your Story in your everyday life so you can fully be who you are (and who you’re becoming) - in your relationship with self, your friendships, romantic relationships, family relationships, work, creativity, your commitment to creating a just world, wherever you seek evolution…
Use of Story as a visioning and manifestation tool for your life
Access to the same blueprint I discovered and have used on my own journey to heal and expand my Story and create my life. And me to guide you through the process.
Supportive space and time to transform your Story in profound ways that will continue after the course ends and serve you for the rest of your life, as your Story continues to grow and evolve
This is for You if…
You’re curious to explore your Story outside the boxes and systems you’ve been navigating within
You’re seeking a space where you can explore and be your whole self, and receive support to bring this whole self into your every day
You wonder how your Story and your life would shift if you gave yourself permission to be your fullest self
You’re stuck in old stories and narratives that are holding you back. You’re ready to heal them so that you can grow forth, towards the life you desire.
You have a fear of being seen, and might wonder if you have a Story worth exploring or telling at all. Yet there’s something that’s calling you forward, and you seek support to answer that call.
You know there’s a Story in you that can heal and liberate yourself and others. You seek an intuitive and creative process to help sculpt it to life.
You yearn to activate and know your Authentic Voice, and experience its fullest expression in your life
You’re open to exploring yourself and your Story through words - written and spoken. You don’t need to be a writer or love writing, but you’re open to journaling and self reflection exercises in written and spoken forms.
You’re open and ready to make a commitment to doing this work, for yourself and your life
Notes About This Course
As we will be a group that reflects many identities and lived experiences, there will be invitations on how to engage
each other to make this a safe yet brave and open space for everyone’s healing and evolution.
This course focuses on personal development, healing and evolution. However, individual healing leads to collective healing. As you’re called in to heal yourself, you may also awaken to how you can be of service to your communities and the world.
Enrollment Guidelines
Enrollment is open a few times a year for the community - check back for details. If you are interested in bringing this course to your own community or organization, send an email to hosanna@theopenseries.com. Thank you!
Healing Equity Fund
You can also donate to the Healing Equity Fund, created by The Open Series. This fund supports POC communities to take this course for free on an ongoing basis. Any and all donation amounts are welcomed.
Testimonials
“Hosanna is a true gift to the healing world as working with her has created room for new perspectives in my everyday life. With her supportive and empowering tools, I’ve been able to mend broken relationships with my immediate family. Through this work, I was finally able to remove all of the limiting labels and beliefs from past experiences that unknowingly informed and sometimes tainted my present experiences. I was able to heal stories that once served as defense mechanisms and dressings to old wounds in order to truly step into my individual power. Where I once felt stuck, I now feel a beautiful sense of fluidity that I can’t ever recall experiencing prior to this journey. My gratitude for you can’t be quantified, thank you, Goddess!”
“I share this in honor of the work I’ve been doing with Hosanna and StorySculpting™. I share this in being transparent that, at the age of 38, I truly see myself as me, and as myself in the world. And! how I want to truly and authentically be. I can’t express enough how this work has supported me....This work is next level...The work continues, and as it does I can serve myself and this world in a much better way.”
“I was initially anxious to begin my StorySculpting™ : Are there things that would come up that I wasn’t ready to face? Would I excavate my story and be critical of it? All of these worries were dissipated by Hosanna. She gently allowed space for my ego to run wild, and grounded me through breathing exercises, calling attention to my energy centers, quieting my mind and allowing my intuition to arise in its place. The Story exploration (through writing and audio recordings) allowed my spirit to explore an expansive inner terrain. Yes, things from the past that were unresolved were brought to the surface, but unexplored pathways made themselves clear through this guided process, and an uncharted and exciting future became available to me. This offering is for anyone who is ready to make a meaningful shift in their life. It certainly did that for me, by further unlocking my purpose and communicating it to the world.”
“I am just grateful that I had the experience. Hosanna’s group sessions made me feel like I could share parts of me in the presence of others, as she created a safe space for connection to happen. More than one person in the group had similar experiences as me, and it was really cathartic to realize that my Story is unique but I’m not alone… ”
“StorySculpting™ came to me at a time when I was grappling with undesirable aspects of my identity, personality and patterning that had bubbled to the surface... Even though I had been in talk therapy for several months, I had not had much success with naming what I was feeling, or with preemptively recognizing when anxiety was coming on or what might trigger it.
From the first session with Hosanna, what struck me most was her expansiveness. She seemed to be able to gracefully hold space for the many identities we worked together to name... With each realization or observation I would make about myself, Hosanna activated an impartial wisdom to guide me to the next. Her commitment to compassionately pointing to wisdoms that my stories were offering was crucial, allowing me to share painful truths of trauma without remaining stuck in (or victimized by) them. She helped me uncover powerful realizations about my struggles with authentic voice and truth, and many of the exercises we worked through provided me with a tool set (ranging from journaling to recording and more) to continue working through fears and blocks in those areas.
Beyond the tools, though, Hosanna’s energy and wisdom has helped me to cultivate and access my internal observer. My connection to my higher self is palpable for the first time ever, allowing me to begin the work of learning how to view my feelings as valuable pieces of intuition. My suffering as markers of lessons that I’m becoming more prepared to receive. My stories as things that I alone am capable of shifting.
Thank you Hosanna, your presence in my healing journey feels so aligned. I am grateful for the work that we have done, and the work that I know we’ll continue to do in the future. ”
About Hosanna
Hello, Hosanna here…
I’m a healing practitioner, evolving human and creator of The Open Series - a well being platform that creates sacred and brave space for self discovery, healing and growth.
I help evolving humans like you connect with the power of your Story to heal old narratives and limiting beliefs, awaken your Authentic Voice, and create a life aligned with your soul’s deepest desires and highest calling for being here.
In 2013, I created The Open Series - originally a documentary film series that explored the relationship between travel and self discovery. Each short film told the intimate story of an individual in a crossroads moment in life who was ripe for a journey. Open sponsored them to take a trip anywhere in the world.
After facilitating others’ journeys, I took a step back for some discovery of my own. It was on a solo trip through Spain and Portugal that I injured my left foot. Months later back in NYC - my home at the time - a doctor told me I’d broken a small bone that would likely never mend. This was a wake up call to how I’d been pushing through pain - physically and in many other areas of my life. I began to slow down, and my healing journey began.
I created StorySculpting on this journey… Navigating moments of transition in which I could hear my soul’s call to grow. Inspired to follow the call, yet also struggling with anxiety, feelings of unworthiness and the friction and uncertainty that growth can bring. I was stuck in old stories, and the dissonance between what I desired for my life and what I was actually experiencing in my day to day.
When I asked myself what I needed to release the blocks and receive the life that was calling me forward, I heard a voice say so lovingly and clearly: grace and space. Space to open up, to feel my feelings, allow all of my parts. Grace to meet my whole self, to experience and know myself outside all the boxes and gaze, to be seen and heard. And permission, to open up and dream, make my visions textured and real, and receive the support I desired to bring them into their fullest expression and manifestation.
Open is that space for me, and for you too. As I heal and grow, I share the tools, practices and insights that have changed (and are changing) my life. I’m guided by a deep desire to create and be a part of communities and futures that liberate and support us to heal, grow and thrive into our fullest selves - as individuals, as communities.
As it relates to this moment, I am currently evolving my Story in México - creating a home base and life of daily joy, healing, creation and connection.
I look forward to meeting you…
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